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Thomas D. Nadeau — 30 Patents

Cisco: 24 patents #457 of 13,007Top 4%
JNJuniper Networks: 3 patents #1,011 of 2,602Top 40%
ALAvago Technologies International Sales Pte. Limited: 2 patents #297 of 1,094Top 30%
BLBritish Telecommunications Public Limited: 1 patents #627 of 1,458Top 45%
Hampton, NH: #2 of 123 inventorsTop 2%
New Hampshire: #346 of 12,181 inventorsTop 3%
Overall (All Time): #121,623 of 4,157,543Top 3%
30 Patents All Time
Thomas D. Nadeau has been granted 30 US patents while listed as an inventor at Cisco. The first was granted in 2006 and the most recent in December 2020. Thomas D. Nadeau ranks #121,623 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 2.9%). Patent records list Thomas D. Nadeau in Hampton, NH, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 2006 to 2020Bar chart with a peak of 5 patents in 2010.peak 52006: 1 patents20062008: 2 patents20082009: 3 patents20092010: 5 patents20102011: 5 patents20112012: 3 patents20122013: 1 patents20132014: 4 patents20142016: 4 patents20162020: 2 patents2020

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 30 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
10855684 Communication framework for a federation of network controllers James Gregory Hall 2020-12-01
10666516 Constraint-based virtual network function placement Vishwanath Jayaraman 2020-05-26
9461877 Aggregating network resource allocation information and network resource configuration information Nitin Bahadur, Kenneth E. Gray 2016-10-04 $15,946,000
9413634 Dynamic end-to-end network path setup across multiple network layers with network service chaining Kenneth E. Gray 2016-08-09 $2,928,000
9344348 Managing the quality of service levels (QoS) of network traffic Anton Ivanov 2016-05-17 $1,286,000
9258238 Dynamic end-to-end network path setup across multiple network layers Nitin Bahadur, Kenneth E. Gray, Alia Karin Atlas 2016-02-09 $2,006,000
8824464 Techniques for distributing network provider digital content to customer premises nodes William Mark Townsley 2014-09-02 $51,223,000
8804496 Protecting multi-segment pseudowires Jim Guichard, Luca Martini, Keyur Patel 2014-08-12 $19,896,000
8804534 Interworking between MPLS/IP and Ethernet OAM mechanisms Samer Salam, Luca Martini, Ali Sajassi 2014-08-12 $19,896,000
8717936 Optimal automated exploration of hierarchical multiprotocol label switching label switch paths Danny Prairie, Yufei Shi, George Swallow, Vanson Lim, Jean-Philippe Vasseur 2014-05-06 $27,316,000
8374164 Detection of specific BFD path failures Danny Prairie, George Swallow, Reshad Rahman 2013-02-12 $35,798,000
8254271 Point-to-multipoint connectivity verification George Swallow 2012-08-28 $19,962,000
8160055 System and methods for identifying network path performance Monique Jeanne Morrow, W. Mark Townsley, James N. Guichard, George Swallow 2012-04-17 $23,088,000
8116227 Optimal automated exploration of hierarchical multiprotocol label switching label switch paths Danny Prairie, Yufei Shi, George Swallow, Vanson Lim, Jean-Philippe Vasseur 2012-02-14 $25,137,000
8081563 Protecting multi-segment pseudowires Jim Guichard, Luca Martini, Keyur Patel 2011-12-20 $35,032,000
7990888 System and methods for network reachability detection Azhar M. Sayeed, Michael T. Piecuch, James N. Guichard, Jean-Phillipe Vasseur, George Swallow 2011-08-02 $42,564,000
7986686 Techniques for distributing network provider digital content to customer premises nodes William Mark Townsley 2011-07-26 $41,657,000
7983174 Method and apparatus for diagnosing a fault in a network path John Monaghan, Sam K. Aldrin 2011-07-19 $43,590,000
7912934 Methods and apparatus for scheduling network probes David Richard Melton, Sam K. Aldrin 2011-03-22 $44,691,000
7839847 Methods and apparatus providing VPN traffic matrix construction Sumit Mukhopadhyay, Stephen Paul Elias, Adrien Michael Grise 2010-11-23 $22,543,000
7808919 Network monitoring using a proxy Mohammed Sayeed, Sam K. Aldrin 2010-10-05 $20,445,000
7782790 Extensions to the path verification protocol to support link bundling constructs George Swallow, Danny Prairie, David Delano Ward 2010-08-24 $28,217,000
7773611 Method and apparatus for packet loss detection Earl Hardin Booth, III, W. Mark Townsley 2010-08-10 $20,228,000
7746793 Consistency between MPLS forwarding and control planes Jean-Philippe Vasseur 2010-06-29 $23,802,000
7599303 System and methods for sending trace messages W. Mark Townsley 2009-10-06 $37,560,000